S7 Airlines — four years in oneworld alliance

18.11.2014

In November S7 Airlines celebrates its four-year anniversary of being part of global airline alliance oneworld. On the 15th of November 2010, S7 Airlines became full member of the alliance and partner of the world’s leading airlines.

S7 Airlines Passengers can get with comfort to practically any destination in the world at best fares offered together by alliance member airlines. Global route map of oneworld includes over 1000 cities in 150 countries. Passengers have an opportunity to go round the world by choosing convenient flights and cities for stops due to good round-the-world fares of Global Explorer alliance.

During this period, S7 Airlines concluded codeshare agreements with ten alliance members. Over 120 codeshare flights are performed daily operated by other oneworld airlines.

Frequent flyers of S7 Airlines appreciated the advantages of the alliance. S7 Priority program members can earn miles on flights of S7 Airlines and its partners, as well as get award tickets on any flights of oneworld member airlines.

During four years, S7 Priority members spent 233,727,500 miles for awards tickets on oneworld airlines flights.

Vice-President of oneworld alliance Michael Blunt said: “oneworld aims to be the first choice alliance for international frequent flyers. The alliance brings together the leading airlines to offer to its customers the services of the highest quality and really global route map. Before joining the alliance, each airline is subjected to a full audit of all areas of its activities — from safety level to service standards. S7 Airlines fully complies with the alliance requirements, that is why we were glad to welcome the airline in oneworld in 2010 and are delighted with our lasting partnership. S7 Airlines considerably expanded the alliance route map in Russia and CIS enabling us to connect these regions to almost thousand cities all over the world.”

“Working within the alliance enables us to interact with the leading airlines in a more efficient way. We can offer to our passengers flights to almost any destination in the world providing the high service standards even at those airports that are not serviced by S7 Airlines. In addition to this, the passengers in other country can contact S7 Airlines contact center and receive an advice in Russian. Moreover, we offer advantageous fares on our partners’ flights, and this makes travels with oneworld airlines particularly attractive,” — Deputy General Director of S7 Group Anton Eremin said.

S7 Airlines (a brand of Siberia Airlines, www.s7.ru) is a member of the oneworld® global aviation alliance.

The airline has the widest internal route network in Russia, created on the basis of air transport hubs at Moscow (Domodedovo) and Novosibirsk (Tolmachevo). S7 Airlines also performs regular flights to countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Europe, the Near East, South Asia and countries of the Asia Pacific region.

In 2007 the company received an official IATA Notice of Record into the IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit), becoming the second air carrier in Russia to have successfully passed the full international audit procedure for compliance with these operational safety standards.

S7 Airlines is one of the most stable airline companies in Russia thanks to the use of the latest advances in the international passenger services field, and active development of its own services.

S7 Airlines was the winner of the Wings of Russia 2010 Award in the 'Business Project in Civil Aviation of Russia' category. S7 Airlines has also been winner of the annual People's Brand/Brand No. 1 in Russia award.

S7 Airlines currently owns one of the newest and most modern aircraft fleets on the Russian air transportation market.

The airline is part of the S7 Group. In 2013 the group member airlines carried more than 9.238 million passengers.